[Info-ingres] Whatever happened to...

[Karl Schendel]

On Nov 26, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Roy Hann <specially at processed.almost.meat> wrote:

> ...permits?
> 
> I spent some time today marvelling at what I first took to be a
> seriously ridiculous database, stuffed with zillions of silly-looking
> views and synonyms.
> 
> I was then shown the code that creates all that stuff and realized that
> it was attempting to do what Ingres permits do.
> 
> Which led me to wonder why the permit machinery that exists in the
> server has never been exposed in SQL.

I dunno.   It might be a bit tricky in the presence of outer joining, subselects, etc
but surely there is some more or less reasonable way to interpret them that
would not be a great burden.

I expect that most of the reason was simple inertia, perhaps plus the notion
that views would do more or less the same thing.

Karl